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Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes

  • Neurology Working Group of the CHARGE Consortium
  • , NINDS Stroke Genetics Network (SiGN)
  • , UK Young Lacunar DNA Study
  • , MEGAST ROKE Consortium
  • , AFGen Consortium
  • , Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium
  • , International Genomics of Blood Pressure (iGEN-BP) Consortium
  • , INVENT Consortium
  • , STA RNET BioBank Japan Cooperative Hospital Group
  • , COMPASS Consortium
  • , EPIC-CVD Consortium
  • , EPIC-InterAct Consortium
  • , International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC)
  • , METAST ROKE Consortium
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
  • Université de Bordeaux
  • University of Cambridge
  • University Hospital of Bordeaux
  • RIKEN
  • The University of Osaka
  • Harvard University
  • Utrecht University
  • deCODE genetics
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Population Health Research Institute, Ontario
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Kyushu University
  • Lund University
  • University of Lille
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille
  • University of Washington
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Lincoln
  • IRCCS Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta - Milano
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • University of Mississippi
  • Group Health Cooperative
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Stroke Pharmacogenomics and Genetics
  • Children's National Medical Center
  • George Washington University
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • University of Virginia
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • Washington University St. Louis
  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  • Boston University
  • Framingham Heart Study
  • Uppsala University
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of Basel
  • Yale University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • SF Medical Center
  • Icelandic Heart Association
  • University of Iceland
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Leeds General Infirmary
  • National Institute for Health and Welfare
  • University of Helsinki
  • Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia
  • University of Newcastle
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Abstract

Stroke has multiple etiologies, but the underlying genes and pathways are largely unknown. We conducted a multiancestry genome-wide-association meta-analysis in 521,612 individuals (67,162 cases and 454,450 controls) and discovered 22 new stroke risk loci, bringing the total to 32. We further found shared genetic variation with related vascular traits, including blood pressure, cardiac traits, and venous thromboembolism, at individual loci (n = 18), and using genetic risk scores and linkage-disequilibrium-score regression. Several loci exhibited distinct association and pleiotropy patterns for etiological stroke subtypes. Eleven new susceptibility loci indicate mechanisms not previously implicated in stroke pathophysiology, with prioritization of risk variants and genes accomplished through bioinformatics analyses using extensive functional datasets. Stroke risk loci were significantly enriched in drug targets for antithrombotic therapy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)524-537
Number of pages14
JournalNature Genetics
Volume50
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2018

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